&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Franklin_(1864).jpg) USS Franklin, photographed by Edward H. Hart, ca. the 1880s.
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Franklin |
| Namesake | Benjamin Franklin |
| Builder | Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine |
| Laid down | 1854 |
| Launched | 17 September 1864 |
| Commissioned | 3 June 1867 |
| Decommissioned | 13 November 1871 |
| Recommissioned | 15 December 1873 |
| Decommissioned | 2 March 1877 |
| Recommissioned | 2 March 1877 as receiving ship |
| Decommissioned | 14 October 1915 |
| Stricken | 26 October 1915 |
| Fate | Sold |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Screw frigate |
| Displacement | 5,170 long tons (5,253 t) |
| Length | 265 ft (81 m) |
| Beam | 53 ft 7 in (16.33 m) |
| Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
| Propulsion | Steam and sail |
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The fourth USS Franklin was a United States Navy screw frigate. The ship was launched in 1864, partially constructed from parts of the previous USS Franklin. Commissioned in 1867, Franklin, named after Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, served as the flagship of the European Squadron from 1867 to 1868 and from 1869 to 1871. She was decommissioned in 1871. Recommissioned in 1873, she joined the North Atlantic Squadron and served until 1877, when she was decommissioned again, then immediately recommissioned for use as a receiving ship at Norfolk, Virginia. She served in this capacity until 1915, when she was stricken and sold.